Along with the daily pint of mixed berries, today I finally picked two whole mulberries. Two delicious, rich-tasting mulberries from a tree I planted this spring. A tree that I nearly killed by leaving it in its shipping box for a week and watering the wrong end. I’ve heard that mulberries are robust trees (a kind way of saying “invasive”) but that’s robust. How, do you ask, could I possibly have watered the wrong end?
Would you believe I never opened the packing box all the way? It was shipped with two hazelnut trees and I only opened it enough to see the roots. Little did I know the mulberry was packed head-to-toe with them. So I spend a whole week wishing I had time to plant them, fretting over whether any of them would survive, carefully moistening the packing around the bare roots. Finally I planted one hazelnut. Then the other. Then I went looking to get the mulberry out of the box.
Me: Hey! Where are your roots?
Tree: Over here dummy. In the pot. At the other end of the box.
Me: Aiya! Sorry, sorry, sorry. I’m planting you now. I’m watering you now. Please grow.
It did. It does. I think I’ve been forgiven.
Writing Every Day 
Somehow that fruit looks familiar. Can you give a size in millimeters for it?
Maybe about a centimenter long? You’ve probably seen mulberries in people’s yards, especially in older neighborhoods. If they overhang sidewalks, the fruit stains the pavement purple.
I think the only mulberry tree I’ve seen is the one right outside my window (now identified with your assistance). The fruit doesn’t drop off; it dehydrates while still on the tree.
Googling around, most websites caution against eating the leaves, and the rest of them give a recipe for “stuffed mulberry leaves.” Shrugging, I added a couple of leaves to my daily breakfast mush, being careful to clip off the stem portion. The mush gets microwaved for three minutes. I haven’t experienced any hallucinations or other ill effects, except for the one time when a bit of the leaf got caught between my teeth and required flossing.
Are you a silkworm? Why are you eating mulberry leaves?
Not a silkworm, no. Like you, I’m somewhat interested in growing my own veggies. I think I mentioned Allium triquetrum before, eh?
Yesterday I planted a couple of molinga trees. We’ll see how well they do. They sound ideal for this climate, up ’til the part where they die when it freezes. We’ll see. The climate, she is a-changing. A couple of years back we had a freezin’ spell like never before; plants that were half a century old got killed.
Link to molinga tree:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moringa_oleifera
plz can some one plz plz leave me a recipie of stuffed mulberry leaves plz
can some plz gimme a recipie aswell i beg u i am dyin to try it
I never heard of people eating mulberry leaves. You silkworms will have to get your recipes elsewhere.;)